TNA IMPACT 4/4/16THIS IS MY HIGHLY TALKATIVE EPISODE OF IMPACT- ALSO REMEMBER I DON’T WRITE PROMOS, I WILL GIVE A JIST AND THEN USE YOUR IMAGINATION. I FEEL THE CHARACTER/WRESTLER SHOULD ALWAYS CREATE THEIR OWN PROMOS AFTER GETTING THE IDEA AND RUNNING WITH IT, NOT WHAT THE WWE DOES WITH THEIR TALENTS, THAT RUINS A LOT.​TNA World Champion EC3 comes the ring talks about the Jokers Wild series right now. He states that the winner of the series will face him at one of the two biggest events of the entire year in the entire world not just in wrestling.​EC3 then says that he will be the champion at Slammiversary, and he will leave Slammiversary as champion. But, just because someone is the # 1 contender at Slammiversary does not make them the number one contender now or up until the show. EC3 says that he is the ass kicking machine and he will be damned if he has no asses to kick over the next two months.

EC3 says that he will continue to remain active as champion but before that he and Jeff Hardy have business to take care of. EC3 makes fun of the team Thug Life and the Matt Hardy Brand and says that tonight they are taking one step closer to their common goal. Jeff Hardy comes out to basically back up what EC3 says then mentions Eli Drake and Matt Hardy being on his radar after that.

The Matt Hardy brand interrupts and continue with the same kind of routine that happens in every one of these kind of segments. Matt says he still has a legal team working on this and that he will get his rematch. They begin to brawl with EC3 and Jeff and get the upper hand at 4 on 2 until The Pope leaves the booth and helps EC3 and Jeff Hardy clear them out.

*Sacrifice is hyped for 4/18/16 and Jade vs Gail Kim, and Trevor Lee vs Eddie Edwards are announced for their respective titles so far.

MATCH # 1, JOKERS WILD SERIES: TOM LA RUFFA & BRAM DEFEAT MARK ANDREWS & PIERRE MARCEAU VIA DISQUALIFICATION. This is a very quick match as EY hits the ring shortly into it and attacks Bram but still leads to Bram’s team winning.

Bram & EY are gone from the area so then The Legionarres just attack Mark Andrews. Eventually an unexpected Zema Ion makes the save opposed to Drew Galloway.

-Vignette for Mr. M80 is shown stating that he will be here next week.-EY & Bram are shown brawling backstage before officials are seen breaking them up. EY tells Bram that he is a nobody, and nothing without him. Bram tells EY that he is soft and Bram never respected him because he is so weak. EY yells at Bram that he’s a former champion and Bram is a nobody. Bram reponds by saying he is so sure he’d beat a pussy like EY that he’d never show his face again in TNA if he couldn’t beat him and he’d go up north where everyone is a coward.

EY scream Bram doesn’t have a career to walk away from, and that if EY couldn’t beat Bram he’d never show his face again in TNA, and that’s a real loss unlike Bram.Bram says that TNA isn’t big enough for the both of them and that he will run EY out.

MATCH # 2: ABYSS DEFEATS BOBBY ROODE AFTER A LOW BLOW FROM ROSEMARY IS MISSED. After the match Storm grabs a mic and says they’ve had enough of The Decay. Storm says he knows there’s a big show called Sacrifice coming up and that they will put their gold on the line against them at Sacrifice.

Rosemary speaks on behalf of The Decay and accepts their challenge.

Roode says he is sick of the bullshit that The Decay pull every time they’re out here. Roode says that they want to beat The Decay up in the most brutal way possible and put an end to their ways once and for all. Storm then tells The Decay to choose the most brutal type of match that they want so they can bust them up so they never come back from it.

-a conversation is shown mid-way between Eli Drake, Rebel and Godderz with Drake telling Godderz that he needs to up his game. Drake says he’s the king, he’s got the belt, he’s got the gorgeous girl, and that Godderz is a reality TV star with nothing to show for. Drake asks why his partner doesn’t have a bombshell girl to show off like he does? Drake says to think about that, to get himself in Jokers Wild and get a win so they can go and get some more gold together.

-A contract signing for Sacrifice in two weeks between Gail Kim and Jade with Maria takes place. It’s more of a Maria segment than anything as she puts herself over as the Queen of the Knockouts and the Queen of TNA.

Robbie Edgar’s final vignette is shown. Robbie talks about the butterflies he has about getting back to Impact. He says he’s got one last thing to do which is get a meal at his favorite spot in between Jersey and Orlando. Robbie walks in and has a seat. He then says “holy shit, hey do you see that?” The camera focuses on Robbie as he walks over to a different table and he sits down at the table, and the other person at the table is Mahabali Shera who says “please no camera.”

-JB interviews Pepper Parks & Cherry Bomb together. Both talk about how happy they are to get in to TNA, but were that much happier to see the other one get their shot and earn a contract in TNA. Jesse Godderz comes up and approaches Cherry Bomb and starts hitting on her and tells her to come and be with The Man himself. Parks informs Godderz that Cherry Bomb happens to be his wife, Godderz laughs it off and tells him she won’t be for long. Jesse walks away from both of them and tells Parks he’ll see him soon, and tells Cherry Bomb that he’ll see her tonight. Cherry Bomb stops Parks from going after Godderz telling him that she has a match next and cannot stress about what he’s doing while she is going out there to compete.

MATCH # 4: CHERRY BOMB DEFEATS VELVET SKY; VELVET THROWS A TANTRUM AFTER LOSING THE MATCH. [WE SEE ROSEMARY IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, SHE IS SHOWN FREAKING OUT SCREAMING THE WORDS “CHERRY BOMB”]

We see Robbie Edgar sitting with Shera. Shera is shown saying that he came from such a rough place and area, that he fought so hard and he failed. He says nobody cares about how tough he is, the things James Storm made him do and go through, that assholes like Jesse Godderz and Eli Drake cheated to beat him and the fans did not even care, and that his only friend just got sent across the globe and he won’t see him again.

Robbie tells Shera that he can’t let that run him out of the business. He says that he busted his ass and broke away from Jesse Godderz, had a great run in the WTS and in January the fans booed him out of the building. Robbie said he was going to quit but he went home and found himself and he’s ready to go shock the world. Robbie gives a pep talk to Shera and tells him to hop in the car with him and head back to Impact Wrestling and win these fans over and prove they’re the toughest guys in the company.

-Drew Galloway is shown in the crowd. He says that he will not forfeit his briefcase, and that he will also win Jokers Wild and will win the belt without even needing the briefcase. Drew tells the crowd that if Bennett wants his briefcase then he can come try and take it from him right now, and Drew heads to the ring.

Mike Bennett shows up with a mic stating that he’s been in two matches with Drew and ended up a winner in both. Bennett states that he’s the face of TNA, the miracle and he will come there now and he will beat Galloway again. Bennett hops in the ring.

SOMEWHAT IMPROPTU MATCH: DREW GALLOWAY VS MIKE BENNETT FIGHT BACK AND FORTH FOR A FEW MINUTES WHEN LASHLEY HITS THE RING AND BEATS DREW GALLOWAY UP. AT THE TOP OF THE RAMP WE SEE MARIA WITH JADE AND ALSO RAQUEL WITH THEM.

MIKE BENNETT STEALS GALLOWAY’S BRIEFCASE; WE SEE BENNETT LEAVE WITH MARIA AND JADE; LASHLEY STANDS OVER GALLOWAY LOOKING UP AT RAQUEL WHO IS SMILING IN APPROVAL AS WE FADE TO COMMERCIAL.

MAIN EVENT: EC3 & JEFF HARDY DEFEAT THUG LIFE (O’SHEA & TYRUS) Spud is the manager for Thug Life in this match, and he continues to interfere. A lot of antics take place that leads to EC3 getting hit with an illegal object putting him down outside for a while with Jeff fighting off both men most of the match. Eventually The Pope has had enough again and for the second time gets involved and evens up the score by taking out Spud. This enables Hardy & EC3 to even up the playing field and get the victory. Pope raises the hands of both men as the show closes.

TNA IMPACT 4/11/16-The show opens with The Decay backstage announcing that next week at Sacrifice they will face Beer Money in what they call the “Valley Of Shadows” match.

MATCH # 1: JOKERS WILD TOURNAMENT MATCH-PEPPER PARKS & MR. M80 defeat CRAZZY STEVE & ZEMA ION We see Jade backstage with Maria as she presents her the crown of Queen Of The Knockouts that she won at ONO Knockouts Knockdown. Jade tells Maria that she owes her victory at ONO to Maria’s guidance and since Maria gave her the gift of a KO title shot, she is repaying her with the gift of being the Queen. Mike Bennett says the Queen Of Miracles is in full force.

-Eli Drake is seen backstage with Godderz talking about how he didn’t bag Cherry Bomb last week. They bump in to Pepper Parks and Mr. M80 walking back and attack them from behind after they pass. Godderz yells that he will take Pepper’s woman and that he’s not on his level.

The assault stops when Robbie Edgar & Shera make their return and run Drake and Godderz off and save the two newcomers.

An entire match listing and graphic for Sacrifice is shown on the screen while Pope & Matthews run down the card: Beer Money vs Decay; Jade v Gail Kim; EY v Bram in a loser leaves TNA match; Trevor Lee v Eddie Edwards, and what’s called a Jokers Redemption match is announced with those not already in matches next week.

-Brief promo backstage with Jeff Hardy on Jokers Wild and getting the next title shot

MATCH # 4: Cherry Bomb’s music hits and she walks down to the ring but from out of nowhere is blind-sided by Rosemary who hits her from the side. Rosemary brutally assaults Cherry Bomb until Gail Kim and more officials come out and Rosemary leaves. Cherry Bomb is taken out on a stretcher. Gail Kim does not have a tag team partner.

JADE & MARIA KANELLIS-BENNETT defeat GAIL KIM Maria doesn’t do hardly any wrestling but the two of them pulling heel antics enables Jade to hit the piledriver but then allows Maria to cover her for the victory.

-EC3 is out and cuts a promo about JW, waiting for challengers and the entire Matt Hardy Brand and brags how he has beat them all except for the one he owes a beating to the most in Tyrus. The Matt Hardy brand comes out and Matt cuts the same promo he always does he mentions his lawyer working to fight the case and says it all goes away if TNA & EC3 just give him his shot now. EC3 calls Matt out for not having a lawyer and that’s why nothing has happened. Hardy back tracks until Tyrus tells EC3 that he will ask for his title shot and wrestle EC3 when he wants to. Tyrus trash talks Pope who then stands up and enters next to EC3. Pope cuts a promo and tells the Matt Hardy Brand to challenge him when they have the balls. Matt Hardy talks and says they all have JW matches tonight so they’ll save EC3 and Pope from joining Cherry Bomb in the hospital tonight and walk away.

MATCH # 5: JOKERS WILD SERIESLASHLEY & DREW GALLOWAY defeat JESSE GODDERZ & MAHABALI SHERANeither team can co-exist. Match ends with Shera dropping Godderz while Lashley then spears him and gets the three. Lashley leaves without confrontation with Galloway.Galloway calls out Bennett and tells him to return his briefcase and challenges him next week. Bennett comes out and says he has nothing to prove as he’s already beaten Galloway and proved to be superior. Bennett says the only way he will wrestle Galloway again is if he makes it official and the winner gets the # 1 contenders briefcase. Galloway accepts the challenge.

-EY & Bram are out together for an interview with JB. Both men remain heels and talk about the career match next week. Bram tells EY he will beat him so bad he will run to the WWE with the rest of the cowards in this business. EY mentions that he is going to beat Bram, take him spot in the Jokers Wild series and teach him the lesson he has been trying to make him learn since January.

MATCH # 5: JOKERS WILD SERIESJEFF HARDY & MATT HARDY defeat EDDIE EDWARDS & TYRUSTyrus stops during the match saying he can get a title shot whenever he wants and says he will not fight Matt Hardy, and then starts a fight with The Pope as the two of them brawl to the back. Hardyz defeat Eddie Edwards in the eventual handicapped match. The show ends with Jeff hitting the Twist Of Fate on Matt after the match.

MATCH # 4: BATTLE FOR THE BRIEFCASE:Mike Bennett defeats Drew Galloway with the help of Maria’s interference.*A SEGMENT BACKSTAGE SHOWS DIXIE CARTER YELLING AT MARIA WITH SHANE HELMS AND ROSEMARY AROUND THEM. DIXIE SAYS THAT ALL MANAGERS ARE BANNED IN THE REMAINING TITLE MATCHES TONIGHT AFTER SEEING HOW MARIA JUST AFFECTED THE LAST MATCH.

MATCH # 5: X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPTrevor Lee defeats Eddie Edwards to retain the X Division championship after Rockstar Spud interferes and assists Trevor Lee. We see a distraction where Earl Hebner tries to get Spud out but allows Lee to get a foreign object and hit Edwards with it. After the match Eddie Edwards bitches Earl Hebner out for his mistake.

MATCH # 7: TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP- VALLEY OF THE SHADOWS MATCHThe Decay defeat Beer Money to win the tag team championship. The finish comes when James Storm takes a beer bottle and intentionally shatters it over Roode’s head and then Roode will land in thumbtacs. Abyss will then chokeslam Steve on to Roode for the victory.

Roode will wake up, regain consciousness but still not be alert before receiving a superkick from James Storm and then the show comes to an end.

Explanations I explained the Veda Scott finishI explained the writing off of Melendez & GradoJokers Wild: every single drawing I made was an actual random drawing except I intentionally paired the Hardyz together. Even Galloway & Lashley together was unintentional

The Jokers Wild redemption match was the four guys not used on Sacrifice because the number of teams left on the roster did not provide enough wrestlers for a second round to work.

The Matt Hardy lawyer segment is to essentially make Hardy look like he is lying about it to try and get a rematch with no justification. However, as a second option if TNA does sign Veda Scott then she will step into this role.

Veda Scott is someone I hope gets signed, if she does then she will be a lawyer who also gets herself on the roster but uses Matt Hardy as a way to get a discussion with Dixie. She will then become a KO and a valet and her first client will likely be Mr. M80 and I also think Tigre Uno would benefit from the heel turn and mouthpiece.

Gradually introducing changesI wrote a long list of changes to be made to create an alternative many columns ago. What I am doing is gradually implementing these changes into the product to not only explain where they come from but also because using them all at once is just too much like hitting a reset button.

Rematch clause- This is step one in the process. What this does is another way to prevent so many rematches and make fights or matches have a much bigger feel. Big payoffs and paydays benefit from this. If we get a new champion at Slammiversary or BFG (hopefully other PPV’s next year) fans know they won’t see the same match again two nights later. Some matches will have a rematch shortly after that but not all the time. Again, it’s going to be similar to the UFC in a lot of ways.

One Night Only- Not only am I trying to promote the shows to help gain product but I’m also trying to tie it in to the product. The Knockout’s Knowckdown show is being used to TV, but Jokers Wild was basically too late. The JW series I am using on here was an idea I had planned for a long time but had to alter it due to the roster getting that much smaller. It’s a bit of a disaster as I would have liked to start it earlier but also Jokers Wild is supposed to be unpredictable.

Lots of interference & Eddie chewing out Earl Hebner- This is not Eddie Edwards turning heel. The issue with Earl Hebner and the abundance of interference is actually being used as a way to lead to one of my changes in order to do things completely different than WWE or anywhere else.

Jade- I wanted to have a couple of heels that were so damn good and hateable they do not have to cheat to win. Roode & EC3 were those options as heels but now they aren’t an option. I decided to possibly do this with a Knockout too and it may be Jade which is why I had her beat Gail clean.

Shots taken at the WWE- Anyone ever watch ECW? When I originally wrote out some changes to be made, the WWE was not attempting to do what they did back in the territory days nor did I expect them to do so. My solution and feelings (really since the AJ Styles debacle in January) was for TNA to grow a pair of balls like ECW and to fight the WWE back for once instead of kissing their ass. This shows confidence in the roster and the product as well as trying to pull some influence away from WWE and gain some with TNA. It also does what needs to be done and continues to say that the TNA talent is the superior roster in the industry. It’s no longer the case but TNA still needs to act like it is.

I also whole heartedly believe that if you have a voice that reaches a solid amount of people that the majority of the people listening will believe that voice, especially if they hear it enough. It only takes a small number to buy into it and tell others before they start to believe it. Using ECW again, Joey Styles would always out over ECW and how what you saw on Monday Nights couldn’t compare to what you see in ECW. It was believable because it was convincing and the ECW product was also a visibly alternative product. If TNA were to become a real alternative (like it will gradually become again in my fantasy booking series) then this becomes more believable.

Back to ECW, they did get a lot of world class talents but most of them left for WWF or WCW but they did hold on to a few like Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn. They also had a lot of very good talents who never got the push they deserved or were never used properly or given real chances like Shane Douglas, Chris Candido, Bam Bam Bigelow and others, but the truth is for the most part a very large portion of their roster was not very good. The Sandman was not a very good wrestler at all yet was a multiple time world champion, it was believable, and it never mattered because of two reasons: the outstanding booking and the way the talents were portrayed as being loyal and also bad ass enough that WWF and WCW may not be able to hang with them. Truthfully, in a lot of ways the original ECW roster was one of my all time favorites because of the way they were portrayed. TNA absolutely needs to do this. The category of Shane Douglas, Bigelow, Candido, etc. really resembles guys like Drew Galloway, Lashley, Eli Drake and others.

The other example of telling your audience about how something is great when it isn’t but they still buy into it is the WWE. Around 2011 and WrestleMania 27 is when I really got sick of the WWE. I heard Michael Cole say that Dolph Ziggler was something along the lines of the reincarnation of Mr. Perfect. I was flabbergasted, and thought nobody would believe it…wrong! WrestleMania 27 had Triple H vs Undertaker, it stunk. Yet, for about one solid year after that Michael Cole and others told us almost every week that it was a classic, it wasn’t but people started buying into it. I watched one episode of RAW (well about half of one that was mainly fast forwarded the whole time). I stopped to watch Lesnar come to the ring to confront either Undertaker or Triple H. I listened to JBL talk about Lesnar’s MMA career and as an MMA fan was blown away at the lies that were told by JBL, this wasn’t opinions, these were lies that a simple Google search would prove to be a lie…yet I have seen all over the IWC that a lot of WWE fans who don’t watch MMA believed every word of it.

So if Josh Matthews were to take some pot shots at WWE once or twice a month or say why TNA is superior to the other shows what’s the harm? It’s not going to damage their company. If wrestlers like Eli Drake or Bram make comments about WWE or NXT in a promo then what’s the harm? It makes the wrestlers themselves look better and stronger. TNA needs to make waves and make them fast. The only thing that would be said that I do not believe is that TNA has the best roster in wrestling. But, if they actually grew business wise and signed some legitimate top Indy stars then it could be possible again.

Videos & promos in bottom corner of the screen- I’ve been petitioning for this to happen for quite some time now. Anyone who grew up or was around watching the WWF in the late 80’s and early 90’s before RAW would see that during matches, wrestlers would have promos on the bottom right hand side of the screen about their opponent or the division on TV, etc. If TNA is struggling to get everyone involved, this can allow wrestlers in all division to get screen and promo time, allow them to get over, build feuds, and explain matches for those who complain about “random matches.”

James Storm/Your thoughts?This is why I previously chose a booking team from this site and chose some consultants. One consultant I chose was The Count who would have been hired for normal booking and creative work but I feel I needed him in some other positions. It was Count who said that TNA should have had Storm turn on Roode in the final Bobby Roode match in TNA as a set up all along who then goes on to kiss up to Galloway who see’s right through it. I never thought about turning Storm heel until he said that. Obviously, Galloway isn’t my champion right now, he doesn’t even have the briefcase. But, I am using the turning on Roode suggestion.

I am having trouble figuring out what I want to do with him, so here are my options. I’m asking for your feedback from readers as to what you all like best:

James Storm returns to the same character he was with The Revolution and says the devil cannot be trusted, and it was a huge plan to pay Roode back after all of these years

Storm returns to the same character he was with The Revolution but also reveals that he has been behind The Decay the entire team continuing his influence on Abyss from The Revolution.

Storm stays as the Tennessee Cowboy character during his heel turn

Storm becomes the first real tweener. He will talk about how he set Roode up because what Roode did to him did too much damage to his career and he’s been unable to become champion again and it eats him alive. Storm would discuss his love of TNA but how he’s been disrespected and held back for years and now he is on his own and out for himself. He will state that he will get what is his and will not be used to put others over. Storm will say that he will put a stop to any new fad or next big thing TNA wants to push over him whether the fans like that wrestler or if the fans hate that wrestler. He would be the one who really “stands up for wrestling” because people like him are wrestling.